And before you know it.... your Vegemite.NET can only be spread on MS Bread2003. Of course the licencing model means that you must continue paying your yearly subscription, even after the bread has been consumed. So the average person will have to cease all sandwich consumption after a week. Of course any attempt to bake your own bread would be deemed a violation under the DCMA.
I better get used to eating those hand rolls and raw fish.
I just watched the usage comparison and they showed the t9 option only performing about 3 key strokes better than a multi-tap interface, and significantly worse than their system for the same phrase. So I tested it on my phone with t9, "be home by 9!" only takes 17 key strokes/presses here. Most of them being used to find the !
hrrrmmmm
Glad to see it made it to the states...
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I saw this several months ago now and loved it, I think it's available on DVD here now so I will have to go buy it.
I'm not sure if it was a straight to DVD release over there, but if memory serves Mr. Jagger and those responsible for distribution originally agreed not to release this film in the US because they deemed that it would go over the head of most Americans.
Personally I was horrified that such a decision was made, but after seeing the results on Slashdot a couple of weeks ago of the general knownledge of all things scientific over there, it seems to be that the Slashdot crowd is a very vocal minority. I guess it costs a lot to release, and difficult to re-coup with that kind of audience.
Regardless it is a very good film, and it's great you guys can finally see it. I suggest anyone with the slightest interest in cryptography, mathematics, or just wants to see where things have come from.... check this one out asap.
Just because it's more comfortable, doesn't make it more attractive. You try to defend your point by telling how good the phone is in another area. The article is 100% correct, the phone is ugly and looks like a kids toy. Yes they are very good at what they do.... but they aren't anywhere as near as attractive as most of the nokia unveilings, and some of the ericssons.
Of course the best way to stop this trash, especially if you are on a modem, is to only grab the headers and delete the stuff you obviously dont want.
Mailwasher is the best I've found for doing this. Not only will it delete from the server, but if it's a notorious spammer then you can tick the bounce box and it will reply with a user unknown error, hopefully meaning you'll never be hassled by those morons ever again.
Pretty effective, and made my life a whole lot easier. And best of all, from their page... "It's free. That's right, you can keep on using this program and it won't expire. You are offered the chance to register MailWasher and pay a price you think it is worth. Think of this payment as a tip - so please contribute something."
Enjoy peoples, and go easy on their server (if I had a decent connection myself, I'd post a mirror, but alas)
Time and time again these fantastic new sound/graphics/whatever cards are released, and almost always targetted towards gamers. Is it just me? Am I the only one happy with the quality I get out of my current card and the games available for it? The graphics are done well in most games to offer a fantastic and believable escape into the games. And in the end it all comes down the the gameplay anyways.
That being said, I'm not against the new developments. It certainly does look like an awesome card, just seems to me that this particular market segment could almost be bled dry and these cards may have to find something else they are useful for to continue to survive. I dont have a deep enough understanding of the market or those in it to be able to make a serious call on it though.
I remember reading a long long time ago about developments that were looking at moving cycles across to other processors (i.e., big nasty graphics cards) that could be used to offset workloads when they weren't being fully utilised (99% of the time you aren't game playing). Anybody know what happened?
Exactly my point. Its a smart move for microsoft, and the majority of the market actually dont have any problem with it. Sure you can try and justify it as "well they dont know any better" all you like. The fact is, it suits their needs for most purposes and is the easiest option for them.
If something doesn't suit your needs or you dont like it, it's not the responsibility of some large organisation to read your mind or just supply it to you for no other good reason. Go find something that does suit your needs or complain.
I understand, and my post was in no way meant to attack you or your post directly. Just to highlight something that is really bugging me on here lately:)
How come sony dropping the price to edge out microsoft is a huge boon, but microsoft dropping them to beat sony is them being ruthless?
You see this constantly on slashdot. Sure MS dont stick to standards, dont have the most superior product, etc etc. In the end though their loyalties lie not to "the industry" but to the share holders. I dont think at any stage microsoft should be sitting back going "what is the best thing I can do for the IT world today? oh not release a new OS because this one is just dandy!" they should be going "get a new OS out faster, we need to keep our share holders happy". Yes it's not ideal, but it's simply intelligent business practice and they deserve every cent they can squeeze out of people.
Nobody has any right to complain, we drive the market. Dont like the product, dont buy it. If it's a success, bad luck you were in the minority. Want to do something about it? All the whining flaming trolls on here who hate MS should buy up as many shares as they can and influence the direction of the company. I sincerly doubt many of you would maintain your stance were the outcome going to affect your own back pocket*
*please dont take as a dig to the initial poster, just a criticism of the ever increase MS hate fud on slashdot of late.
Still seems to be alot of sets out there that dont support PAL. I know the TV we purchased 18 months ago (still pretty decent though) doesn't support NTSC, however our VCR does so I just play any NTSC N64 games I've got via the video player.
So I think it'd be foolish for MS to release an xbox on the assumption that everyone has TVs that can play NTSC. It's a PAL market, it'd have to output in PAL.
Besides which, with Apache 2.0 you get stacked modules, and a control over the entire serving process that you can't even begin to dream of in IIS.
Oh yeah... and of course you can. Not many modules freely available that you can just install and run. But personally I'd not want to just "install and run" something that takes this kind of control over my machine. I'm more than happy to churn out a mod in c++ to take control of the process. No dreaming involved:)
pity the box the link points to isn't hosted in my country or maintained by me;) It's some several thousand kilometers away running BSD and Apache iirc.
I'm not employed full-time by a pr0n site, sadly;)
Hmmm, another Slashdot reader not reading the article and the points like "Just last week, Microsoft announced that 10 new security holes (several of which were serious buffer overruns) had been discovered in IIS." It's not just the incredibly insecure default configuration that is the problem with IIS.
I read the article. And as I stated in a previous reply, these are trivial to overcome at best. I haven't seen all 10 obviously, and I will service pack the machines regardless within the next 24 hours, but the ones I've seen we aren't susceptible to. Simply blocking extensions you dont need, removing services you dont use, and denying malformed urls or ones that are too long to be legit or contain non-accepted characters prevents almost every "hole" I've seen to date for IIS.
And yes, I agree with you 100% that there is so much stuff PHP can do that ASP can't, but that has nothing to do with the web server, thats a limitation of the language being used. If PHP ran more stable under IIS I'd love it, but alas. But while we are comparing the two;)
Yeah spell checking is a real bitch in ASP, and PDF creation costs $$. But there are utils out there (free) to do flash, mail comes standard and there other other free components which are more flexible, and http and ftp as a file is possible through a custom COM component quite easily, and if memory recalls is standard in ASP.Net (which was finally released last month).
The kind of power that is available now in Apache is amazing, plus Windows users aren't really second (well maybe fifth or sixth with Apache 1.x) class citizens anymore.
Which is fantastic and to date the only argument I've seen to warrant a second look at the product. But "beats" IIS is a big call. One of the biggest motivators for not running Apache to begin with was once installed you quickly realise, it's not the apache you are used to and love at all, it was a crippled cousin. Makes you feel a little used and deceived at best. But, time to take another look.
Yes, the joy of the windows registry. The reason to re-install your operating system every year
Heh, thank god it's vanishing (well slowly) with.Net
I'm yet to have a single box comprimised, so I think the "ignorant" label may be missed place. A simply isapi filter to intercept all addresses and strip any that contain characters appended to the end that you shouldn't be expecting isn't difficult to setup. Granted microsoft should have done it properly in the first place, but they didn't.
Almost every exploit I've seen to date either targets a file extension that you just dont need to support for any legitimate reason I am yet to see (but IIS has enabled as default so you can administer the server through a web interface), or through a long mnagled URL that causes a buffer overflow. Both which can simply be fixed by a sys admin with half a clue. Both of which I believe MS has tools out to assist with now.
You can also get Apache for free, whether you purchased an OS license or not.
Yes you do. But the review was comparing IIS and Apache on win2000, a server you have to pay a licence for whether you like it or not. Alot of people on here seem to be throwing up the "yay! a free alternative to IIS." If you are running a free OS, you dont have IIS as an option to begin with. If IIS is an option, it's already free.
Yeah I agree. I'm employed full-time as a web developer and have to also wear the sysadmin hat for our webservers. We run a Win2000 network, so I didn't have a lot of choice on what I could install OS wise as the gods that be decreed we will use the licences we have paid for. And to be perfectly honest, there isn't much I miss from my linux/apache/php/mysql days.
IIS can be made just as secure as Apache, and those that think it's security is flawed are doing nothing but showing their ignorance of the product. Sure out the box it's going to get reemed, but takes no more 5 mins (or 10secs if you saved a copy of the registry keys;) to tighten it up.
ASP offers me pretty much everything I'd want from PHP except for easy dynamic image creation (still possible, just not as slick) and cheap and easy dynamic PDG creation.
As for costs... thats a non issue. What possible advantages does running apache on a Win32 box offer me? I've already paid for the OS license, and I get IIS for free with it whether I use it or not. Admittedly it's been a while since I looked at apache on a 2000 server, but it wasn't to easy to tie in with our domain authentication.
So yay... apache realease a product that, according to the article, is just as good as the other one you get for free with the OS but no better. Oh yeah, and it's more difficult to configure and doesn't have an easy to use interface.
A good UI makes for bad security? Rubbish! If you wanna get down and dirty, you can still play with registry settings.
I've been using slashdot on an almost daily basis for probably a bit over 3 years. You only just informed me that not everything is posted onto the front page. All this time, and I assumed that all new topics in the sections I wished to see were displayed front page.
To be perfectly honest, I'm kinda pissed now as I wonder how much interesting stuff that I've selected I'm interested in, I've actually missed:(
is that ink and paper is far easier on the eyes than any LCD, and it's nothing to do with resolution of the two. Paper is, and always will be, far easier to read until we come up with some kind of organic material that can change and refresh it's perceived colour quickly.
The reason the paper is easier to read it that the human eye/brain can interpret and accommodate reflected light (paper) much easier than it can direct light (crt/lcd). Thats why emails get printed, and you still buy a newspaper if you really wanna have a read as opposed to downloading it to your PDA to take to the bathroom;)
Maybe we will all just have mutations like the gameboy thumb to make us handle this better though:P~
Just because Microsoft doesn't use the functionality, doesn't mean it wont cause issues with the way they have coded their OS/Apps. Anyone who codes regularly would be aware that apparently unrelated aspects often have side-effects to whatever you are working on, especially in an MS environment;) Granted, it should be expected for them to be able to code around this situation and overcome it. But I guess the business case would be that it is a case of diminishing returns.
If it would cost MS a week or so to work around this (which wouldn't be unreasonable in a corporation with as much red tape as I'd anticipate they have... change requests, detailed design specs, impact change study, etc would make if far longer) with a team of people working on it... then if I were an MS shareholder I'd be upset money was being spent to do that when they could have simply had the hardware changed for a net cost of $0 to the company. Because in the end, their responsibility is to their shareholders and sadly not the IT public.
Otherwise I totally agree with you and think you pose a valid point, breaking specs to suit you is never a nice thing. But as I said, they are there for their shareholders not for us. Doesn't mean I agree with the practice.
And one more gripe... I'm peeved my first post got modded to "flamebait". I'm becoming very annoyed with the blinkered mentality much of the slashdot community has developed here. Simply because something criticises a *nix product and/or supports an MS initiative or decision doesn't make it flamebait. Instead of being a moderator on a power trip, try to post a constructive comment like gotan did
Why does everyone feel the need to jump on the bandwagon and MS bash at every opportunity. I hardly see this as a way of microsoft looking to extend it's monopoly. If that were the case they'd bring out their own line of hardware and windows could run on nothing else. Unfortunately with the legacy of the Office suite most cant afford to up and change ship.
Asking a motherboard manufacturer to remove a feature is hardly cause for all the competition to roll over and die. Why aren't the FreeBSD developers criticised for not being able to support this motherboard without the feature enabled? The cause of many desktop Microsoft bashings in recent times is for nothing other than stability. Sure there are problems with the security, especially in server additions, but most peoples major complain is the "Blue screen of death". If Microsoft is able to flex it's muscles to get hardware developers to create a platform that it can code a more stable OS against, then I definitely wont complain.
I dont know if everyone got it on this article, so I posted a screenshot:
I know this is probably considered off-topic, but it needs to be said somewhere. If I continue to get such obtrusive advertisements on slashdot, I will boycott the site as I have many other news sites. I'm sure many others will do the same.
Heh. I actually do all the backend/php stuff for that site. That being said, I actually quite like what the guys have done with the site, as far as sites go for that genre it's quite attractive imho.
Here in Australia we are feeling the squeeze a bit. But it's workable, just means lots of NATing all over the place which then causes lots of problems with administrators that only know how to administer a firewall with a GUI;)
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And before you know it.... your Vegemite.NET can only be spread on MS Bread2003. Of course the licencing model means that you must continue paying your yearly subscription, even after the bread has been consumed. So the average person will have to cease all sandwich consumption after a week. Of course any attempt to bake your own bread would be deemed a violation under the DCMA.
I better get used to eating those hand rolls and raw fish.
I just watched the usage comparison and they showed the t9 option only performing about 3 key strokes better than a multi-tap interface, and significantly worse than their system for the same phrase. So I tested it on my phone with t9, "be home by 9!" only takes 17 key strokes/presses here. Most of them being used to find the !
hrrrmmmm
I saw this several months ago now and loved it, I think it's available on DVD here now so I will have to go buy it.
I'm not sure if it was a straight to DVD release over there, but if memory serves Mr. Jagger and those responsible for distribution originally agreed not to release this film in the US because they deemed that it would go over the head of most Americans.
Personally I was horrified that such a decision was made, but after seeing the results on Slashdot a couple of weeks ago of the general knownledge of all things scientific over there, it seems to be that the Slashdot crowd is a very vocal minority. I guess it costs a lot to release, and difficult to re-coup with that kind of audience.
Regardless it is a very good film, and it's great you guys can finally see it. I suggest anyone with the slightest interest in cryptography, mathematics, or just wants to see where things have come from.... check this one out asap.
maybe he saw it at the drive-ins?
Just because it's more comfortable, doesn't make it more attractive. You try to defend your point by telling how good the phone is in another area. The article is 100% correct, the phone is ugly and looks like a kids toy. Yes they are very good at what they do.... but they aren't anywhere as near as attractive as most of the nokia unveilings, and some of the ericssons.
... because in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
Of course the best way to stop this trash, especially if you are on a modem, is to only grab the headers and delete the stuff you obviously dont want.
Mailwasher is the best I've found for doing this. Not only will it delete from the server, but if it's a notorious spammer then you can tick the bounce box and it will reply with a user unknown error, hopefully meaning you'll never be hassled by those morons ever again.
Pretty effective, and made my life a whole lot easier. And best of all, from their page... "It's free. That's right, you can keep on using this program and it won't expire. You are offered the chance to register MailWasher and pay a price you think it is worth. Think of this payment as a tip - so please contribute something."
Enjoy peoples, and go easy on their server (if I had a decent connection myself, I'd post a mirror, but alas)
Time and time again these fantastic new sound/graphics/whatever cards are released, and almost always targetted towards gamers. Is it just me? Am I the only one happy with the quality I get out of my current card and the games available for it? The graphics are done well in most games to offer a fantastic and believable escape into the games. And in the end it all comes down the the gameplay anyways.
That being said, I'm not against the new developments. It certainly does look like an awesome card, just seems to me that this particular market segment could almost be bled dry and these cards may have to find something else they are useful for to continue to survive. I dont have a deep enough understanding of the market or those in it to be able to make a serious call on it though.
I remember reading a long long time ago about developments that were looking at moving cycles across to other processors (i.e., big nasty graphics cards) that could be used to offset workloads when they weren't being fully utilised (99% of the time you aren't game playing). Anybody know what happened?
Exactly my point. Its a smart move for microsoft, and the majority of the market actually dont have any problem with it. Sure you can try and justify it as "well they dont know any better" all you like. The fact is, it suits their needs for most purposes and is the easiest option for them.
If something doesn't suit your needs or you dont like it, it's not the responsibility of some large organisation to read your mind or just supply it to you for no other good reason. Go find something that does suit your needs or complain.
I understand, and my post was in no way meant to attack you or your post directly. Just to highlight something that is really bugging me on here lately :)
hehe... blackout from 21-27th of april, and first thing in the morning on the 21st you make a post?
How come sony dropping the price to edge out microsoft is a huge boon, but microsoft dropping them to beat sony is them being ruthless? You see this constantly on slashdot. Sure MS dont stick to standards, dont have the most superior product, etc etc. In the end though their loyalties lie not to "the industry" but to the share holders. I dont think at any stage microsoft should be sitting back going "what is the best thing I can do for the IT world today? oh not release a new OS because this one is just dandy!" they should be going "get a new OS out faster, we need to keep our share holders happy". Yes it's not ideal, but it's simply intelligent business practice and they deserve every cent they can squeeze out of people. Nobody has any right to complain, we drive the market. Dont like the product, dont buy it. If it's a success, bad luck you were in the minority. Want to do something about it? All the whining flaming trolls on here who hate MS should buy up as many shares as they can and influence the direction of the company. I sincerly doubt many of you would maintain your stance were the outcome going to affect your own back pocket* *please dont take as a dig to the initial poster, just a criticism of the ever increase MS hate fud on slashdot of late.
Still seems to be alot of sets out there that dont support PAL. I know the TV we purchased 18 months ago (still pretty decent though) doesn't support NTSC, however our VCR does so I just play any NTSC N64 games I've got via the video player.
So I think it'd be foolish for MS to release an xbox on the assumption that everyone has TVs that can play NTSC. It's a PAL market, it'd have to output in PAL.
Besides which, with Apache 2.0 you get stacked modules, and a control over the entire serving process that you can't even begin to dream of in IIS.
:)
Oh yeah... and of course you can. Not many modules freely available that you can just install and run. But personally I'd not want to just "install and run" something that takes this kind of control over my machine. I'm more than happy to churn out a mod in c++ to take control of the process. No dreaming involved
pity the box the link points to isn't hosted in my country or maintained by me ;) It's some several thousand kilometers away running BSD and Apache iirc.
;)
I'm not employed full-time by a pr0n site, sadly
Hmmm, another Slashdot reader not reading the article and the points like "Just last week, Microsoft announced that 10 new security holes (several of which were serious buffer overruns) had been discovered in IIS." It's not just the incredibly insecure default configuration that is the problem with IIS.
;)
.Net
I read the article. And as I stated in a previous reply, these are trivial to overcome at best. I haven't seen all 10 obviously, and I will service pack the machines regardless within the next 24 hours, but the ones I've seen we aren't susceptible to. Simply blocking extensions you dont need, removing services you dont use, and denying malformed urls or ones that are too long to be legit or contain non-accepted characters prevents almost every "hole" I've seen to date for IIS.
And yes, I agree with you 100% that there is so much stuff PHP can do that ASP can't, but that has nothing to do with the web server, thats a limitation of the language being used. If PHP ran more stable under IIS I'd love it, but alas. But while we are comparing the two
Yeah spell checking is a real bitch in ASP, and PDF creation costs $$. But there are utils out there (free) to do flash, mail comes standard and there other other free components which are more flexible, and http and ftp as a file is possible through a custom COM component quite easily, and if memory recalls is standard in ASP.Net (which was finally released last month).
The kind of power that is available now in Apache is amazing, plus Windows users aren't really second (well maybe fifth or sixth with Apache 1.x) class citizens anymore.
Which is fantastic and to date the only argument I've seen to warrant a second look at the product. But "beats" IIS is a big call. One of the biggest motivators for not running Apache to begin with was once installed you quickly realise, it's not the apache you are used to and love at all, it was a crippled cousin. Makes you feel a little used and deceived at best. But, time to take another look.
Yes, the joy of the windows registry. The reason to re-install your operating system every year
Heh, thank god it's vanishing (well slowly) with
I'm yet to have a single box comprimised, so I think the "ignorant" label may be missed place. A simply isapi filter to intercept all addresses and strip any that contain characters appended to the end that you shouldn't be expecting isn't difficult to setup. Granted microsoft should have done it properly in the first place, but they didn't.
Almost every exploit I've seen to date either targets a file extension that you just dont need to support for any legitimate reason I am yet to see (but IIS has enabled as default so you can administer the server through a web interface), or through a long mnagled URL that causes a buffer overflow. Both which can simply be fixed by a sys admin with half a clue. Both of which I believe MS has tools out to assist with now.
You can also get Apache for free, whether you purchased an OS license or not.
Yes you do. But the review was comparing IIS and Apache on win2000, a server you have to pay a licence for whether you like it or not. Alot of people on here seem to be throwing up the "yay! a free alternative to IIS." If you are running a free OS, you dont have IIS as an option to begin with. If IIS is an option, it's already free.
Yeah I agree. I'm employed full-time as a web developer and have to also wear the sysadmin hat for our webservers. We run a Win2000 network, so I didn't have a lot of choice on what I could install OS wise as the gods that be decreed we will use the licences we have paid for. And to be perfectly honest, there isn't much I miss from my linux/apache/php/mysql days.
;) to tighten it up.
IIS can be made just as secure as Apache, and those that think it's security is flawed are doing nothing but showing their ignorance of the product. Sure out the box it's going to get reemed, but takes no more 5 mins (or 10secs if you saved a copy of the registry keys
ASP offers me pretty much everything I'd want from PHP except for easy dynamic image creation (still possible, just not as slick) and cheap and easy dynamic PDG creation.
As for costs... thats a non issue. What possible advantages does running apache on a Win32 box offer me? I've already paid for the OS license, and I get IIS for free with it whether I use it or not. Admittedly it's been a while since I looked at apache on a 2000 server, but it wasn't to easy to tie in with our domain authentication.
So yay... apache realease a product that, according to the article, is just as good as the other one you get for free with the OS but no better. Oh yeah, and it's more difficult to configure and doesn't have an easy to use interface.
A good UI makes for bad security? Rubbish! If you wanna get down and dirty, you can still play with registry settings.
I've been using slashdot on an almost daily basis for probably a bit over 3 years. You only just informed me that not everything is posted onto the front page. All this time, and I assumed that all new topics in the sections I wished to see were displayed front page.
:(
To be perfectly honest, I'm kinda pissed now as I wonder how much interesting stuff that I've selected I'm interested in, I've actually missed
is that ink and paper is far easier on the eyes than any LCD, and it's nothing to do with resolution of the two. Paper is, and always will be, far easier to read until we come up with some kind of organic material that can change and refresh it's perceived colour quickly.
;)
:P~
The reason the paper is easier to read it that the human eye/brain can interpret and accommodate reflected light (paper) much easier than it can direct light (crt/lcd). Thats why emails get printed, and you still buy a newspaper if you really wanna have a read as opposed to downloading it to your PDA to take to the bathroom
Maybe we will all just have mutations like the gameboy thumb to make us handle this better though
Just because Microsoft doesn't use the functionality, doesn't mean it wont cause issues with the way they have coded their OS/Apps. Anyone who codes regularly would be aware that apparently unrelated aspects often have side-effects to whatever you are working on, especially in an MS environment ;) Granted, it should be expected for them to be able to code around this situation and overcome it. But I guess the business case would be that it is a case of diminishing returns.
If it would cost MS a week or so to work around this (which wouldn't be unreasonable in a corporation with as much red tape as I'd anticipate they have... change requests, detailed design specs, impact change study, etc would make if far longer) with a team of people working on it... then if I were an MS shareholder I'd be upset money was being spent to do that when they could have simply had the hardware changed for a net cost of $0 to the company. Because in the end, their responsibility is to their shareholders and sadly not the IT public.
Otherwise I totally agree with you and think you pose a valid point, breaking specs to suit you is never a nice thing. But as I said, they are there for their shareholders not for us. Doesn't mean I agree with the practice.
And one more gripe... I'm peeved my first post got modded to "flamebait". I'm becoming very annoyed with the blinkered mentality much of the slashdot community has developed here. Simply because something criticises a *nix product and/or supports an MS initiative or decision doesn't make it flamebait. Instead of being a moderator on a power trip, try to post a constructive comment like gotan did
Why does everyone feel the need to jump on the bandwagon and MS bash at every opportunity. I hardly see this as a way of microsoft looking to extend it's monopoly. If that were the case they'd bring out their own line of hardware and windows could run on nothing else. Unfortunately with the legacy of the Office suite most cant afford to up and change ship.
Asking a motherboard manufacturer to remove a feature is hardly cause for all the competition to roll over and die. Why aren't the FreeBSD developers criticised for not being able to support this motherboard without the feature enabled? The cause of many desktop Microsoft bashings in recent times is for nothing other than stability. Sure there are problems with the security, especially in server additions, but most peoples major complain is the "Blue screen of death". If Microsoft is able to flex it's muscles to get hardware developers to create a platform that it can code a more stable OS against, then I definitely wont complain.
I dont know if everyone got it on this article, so I posted a screenshot:
I know this is probably considered off-topic, but it needs to be said somewhere. If I continue to get such obtrusive advertisements on slashdot, I will boycott the site as I have many other news sites. I'm sure many others will do the same.
Heh. I actually do all the backend/php stuff for that site. That being said, I actually quite like what the guys have done with the site, as far as sites go for that genre it's quite attractive imho.
Yeah,
;)
Here in Australia we are feeling the squeeze a bit. But it's workable, just means lots of NATing all over the place which then causes lots of problems with administrators that only know how to administer a firewall with a GUI